If Black Had a Shadow - Poems

Helen Mitsios’s poetry is a lovely synthesis of high culture and the beating human heart.  She takes as her subjects and reference points European cities, literary and biblical figures, philosophers, mythology—but, in poem after poem, her intimate voice—tempered by doubt, pain, and love—speaks directly to us. Mitsios is

 one of my favorite poets writing today.

-Yehoshua November

In this elegantly paced collection, Helen Mitsios travels through an unexpected range of haunts. Her lyrical sensibility unfurls images both lustrous and shaded, sometimes mournful but always affectionate. Mitsios is a master of showing how the frailty of language is also its power; the breaths and spaces-between create both balance and pirouette within her poetry’s texture making for a luminous gathering of particularly beautiful poems.

-Pamela Stewart

Helen Mitsios’s new collection of poems startles a ranging imagery into unexpected, fresh combinations through honest musical movements, it's like we are moving radically North/South under the night sky, constellations shifting with the hemispheres and still there is the level, smooth luminosity that comforts without change.

 Lovely poems.

-Norman Dubie

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